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Who is PSYCHOTIC LEOPARD?: Interview with Lisa Johnson
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I: You are an artist, writer, editor, jewelry-maker and designer. How does this play into the products featured on Psychotic Leopard? Psychotic Leopard's Lisa: I learned that I have an eye for detail when it comes to shopping, and have a skill for finding all kinds of wacky treasures, both in and out of stores. I love extreme clothing or fashion, crazy animal prints, and anything that has a "way-out" sense of style. For me, fashion is a tool to connect. People constantly come up to me in restaurants or on the street and tell me they love...
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DEEPENING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN & THEIR FATHERS AND SONS: STEP BY STEP
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When I was little, every Sunday morning started by walking with my dad “to get the paper.” Instead of The New York Times being delivered to our house, he liked to go down to the local drugstore for it, and I would accompany him. As the eldest child, my sister still a toddler and at home with my mom, I basked in his full attention. The neighborhood I lived in was called Indian Village, and all of the streets were named after Native American tribes. Probably less for tradition and more as a deterrent for cars, almost every...
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Jewelry and Value: Determining the Priceless
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When I was in the midst of a messy divorce, one of the things my lawyer said to do was figure out all of the assets, and a biggie, he explained, was jewelry. I was told to carefully go through what I had, make a list, and figure out an estimated value of its worth. My wedding ring was a simple gold band, and I hadn’t worn it in so long that I couldn’t even remember where it was. My ex had gotten lucky: I was young and naive when we met, and had not made a big deal...
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What Gets Us Through: Trauma and the Importance of Physical Strength in Healing
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After nearly eighteen years of a fairly stable relationship, I learned that my husband had begun an affair with a girl thirty years his junior. Stunning for anyone, yes, but more so was that my partner, whose judgment I had always respected, confessed that he and the girl had actually never met. Several sites linking her to German porn made no difference; he was convinced she was his soulmate and promised to marry her within two weeks of their email correspondence. A few months into the rocky navigation of all attempts to save a doomed marriage, my son's best friend shot himself in the head...
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How To Marry the Wrong Person: The Power of Underestimating Oneself
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Date someone after you've been out of the country for a year and starved for intellectual companionship. Even though he's kind of dumpy, wears the same pair of too-tight black Levis for weeks on end, and sports a hairpiece at the age of 30, convince yourself that he’s attractive enough. When you first take a shower at his house, ask for a towel. When he gives you a shredded orange rag from the floor of his closet, pretend that it’s funny. Ditto for the t-shirt covered with dog fur. Pretend the pyramid of dirty tissues you find is amusing...
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